For Sunday we had batted around a few ideas, but eventually
settled on a through trip from OFD1 to Cwm Dwr with a divertion up to Fault
Aven.
Because of our planned trip we were each loaded with a kit
bag as we headed in. Jess took the lead for the trip to cement the route in her
head. OFD1 proved easy going with the water levels very low and we were soon
past the stream way, up the choke and making our way through the connection
before we knew it. At the Letterbox we tried grabbing the chain and walking up
the wall to post ourselves in feet first staring at the ceiling and this worked
extremely well. On we went through the crawls, down the Divers Pitch and to the
Confluence where again we met a very low main stream way.
At the first river chamber Jess went up first to get the
ladder rigged at the pull through. I went up the pitch first and re-rigged to
belay the girls up and then off we went to the photographic objective of the
day, Fault Aven.
After navigating a rather intimidating traverse around a big
hole in the floor I sent the girls off to have a look at the sand blocked rift
passage whilst I set up flash guns. We spent a good 20 minutes trying to get a
shot before eventually deciding to call it a day and continue with the through
trip. We decided to turn right after the confluence and head out via the
waterfall, but at some point we took a wrong turn, perhaps climbing out at the
wrong point, and eventually exited via a squeeze in boulders about 30m from the
Smithy.
Back on route we had no further problems making our way out
aside from an incident where my balanced camera box slipped off a rock above me
giving me a black eye!
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| Loz at Fault Aven |
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| Jess and Loz at Fault Aven |
Present: Loz Appleby, Jess Burkey & Mark Burkey
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